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The Sky is Falling
Posted on January 8, 2013 by Steve Silverman
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Alvin Rodecker and his wife chose to celebrate his 60th birthday in style. It was to be an incredible, memorable trip to New York City. If only he had looked up after upon leaving a ritzy restaurant…
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Original Podcast Air Date: January 8, 2013
And now for today's story titled "The Sky is Falling", which begins with a businessman named Alvin Rodecker. He was the head of Aaron DeRoy Management, a company founded by Arthur D. Rodecker in 1927. Why a family with the name of Rodecker would owe a company called Aaron DeRoy is beyond me, but that is really not important to this story at all.
What is important was the fact that the younger Alvin was turning 60 years old. To celebrate this milestone, Alvin and his wife Katherine spent weeks planning a grand trip to to NYC. They arrived in the Big Apple on Wednesday June 22 of 1960 and checked into the landmark Plaza hotel for three days.
The next day, June 23rd, which just happened to be his birthday, the couple decided to have lunch at the Le Pavillon restaurant at 111 E. 57th St, which is right off of Park Ave. It was about seven minutes walking distance away. Now the couple could have chosen to eat anywhere in the city – and there were numerous fine restaurants closer to the hotel – but for some reason they chose this one.
At around 2 PM in the afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. Rodecker finished their meal and exited the restaurant. "Holy cow, that was expensive," Mr. Rodecker commented to his wife. He added, "But it was worth it. We're really celebrating."
And, then…
Those were the last words Alvin Rodecker ever spoke. Something fell from the sky and he was knocked out cold on the sidewalk and was bleeding badly.
What could it have been? A meteor? A chunk of concrete from the building? No, it was an 8-pound dumbbell. You know, the type that guys use to build up muscles to impress the ladies.
Mr. Rodecker was rushed to the hospital but, sadly, he didn't make it. You can be sure that doctors did everything they could to save his life, but he succumbed to his injuries the very next day.
So where did the killer dumbbell come from? It turns out that the Le Pavillon restaurant was located on the ground floor of Manhattan's ritziest apartment buildings – the aptly named Ritz Tower – the 41-story home to many people of fortune and fame. And eight floors directly above the exterior canopy of the restaurant was the apartment of actress Arlene Francis and her husband theatrical producer Martin Gabel. Both are virtually forgotten today, but were very well-known back then.
The couple was not in the apartment at the time of the incident. For the previous three weeks, they had been staying in their Mt. Kisco, NY home, which was a bit closer to the Westport, Connecticut summer stock play that Miss Francis was performing in.
Since they knew that their Ritz Tower apartment was going to be unused during this period, the couple decided to get their broken air conditioner fixed. It was a large window unit that left a gaping hole in the window frame when it was removed. To resolve this problem, a temporary screen was installed, but it didn't sit well in the opening. As a result, two 8-pound dumbbells were wrapped in towels and propped against the screen to keep it firmly in place. Keep in mind that the dumbbells of this time period were all round – they weren't the flat-sided polygons so commonly used today – that means that they can roll easily.
As you have probably guessed, some sort of action set one of these dumbbells in motion. Investigators quickly learned that Ms. Francis' secretary Muriel Fleit decided that this particular screen needed cleaning and the maid Effie Turner started to remove it from the window.
As she did so, one of the of the dumbbells came unwrapped from its towel and rolled across the window ledge. Effie made a quick grab for it, but she was unable to stop its forward momentum. The dumbbell was now in a state of freefall – right down to the sidewalk below where it struck Mr. Rodecker with that fatal blow to his skull.
A few days later, Ms. Francis was scheduled to appear on the TV show "What's My Line", a show on which she was a regular panelist from 1950 to 1975. Here is audio clip from that episode:
That was the show's host John Charles Daly speaking right after the four panelists, including Ms. Francis, were introduced to the audience.
In Ms. Francis' 1978 autobiography, she writes "I was called in Westport, and I came to New York immediately, shattered and unbelieving and covered with guilt. The latter was not because anyone was trying to attach any blame to me, but it was my room, they were my dumbbells, and I couldn't help feeling that, however inadvertently, I had been responsible for someone's death."
Two weeks after the accident, the district attorney's office announced that after a thorough investigation, it was concluded that there was no evidence of criminal neglect. It was simply an accident stemming from a bizarre sequence of events.
While there was clearly no criminal guilt here, lawsuits certainly did follow. A suit was filed by Mrs. Rodecker in the New York State Supreme Court on January 11th of 1962 against Arlene Francis, her husband Martin Gabel, and the Ritz Towers Hotel for $500,000.
On June 20th, 1962 it was announced that an out-of-court settlement was reached. The couple agreed to pay Katherine Rodecker $175,000, which was covered by their insurance policy. The apartment building coughed up an additional $10,000, for a grand total of $185,000. Mrs. Rodecker's lawyers took their cut of $41,000. At first glance, $185,000 may not seem like a lot of money for the death of a spouse, but that translates into about $1.4 million dollars in 2012 funds.
With that sad tragedy behind them, things were only about to get worse for Ms. Francis. Less than one year after the settlement was reached, May 26, 1963 at 2:20 in the afternoon to be precise, she was driving along the Northern State Parkway of Long Island at about thirty miles per hour. That's about 55 km/hr for those unfamiliar with the Imperial system of measurement. So, here she is driving with a fine drizzle coming down, car windows fogging in, and then suddenly the car in front of her skidded. She immediately slammed on her brakes and veered right across the highway divider into head-on traffic. Her car collided with another driven by Joseph Arcos of Brooklyn.
Ms. Francis was knocked unconscious, but awoke just as she was being loaded into an ambulance. She suffered a broken collarbone, cracked ribs, a concussion, and the many cuts and bruises common to an accident this severe. She was lucky to be alive.
Sadly, Rose Arcos, the wife of the driver, was killed. And, once again, lawsuits were filed, but this time it was for 1.8 million dollars. That's about 13 million buckaroos today. This was an amount far above what any insurance policy would have covered at the time.
Again, referring back to her biography, she stated "An accident of this nature, in addition to the sorrow it caused, could very well have had the effect of bankrupting us." She went on to describe how her lawyers explained that she was being sued for such a large sum because she was a famous actress and was assumed to have had an incredibly high income.
This time there was a trial. Ms. Francis' insurance company had settled out of court for three of the five victims of the accident. That was for the late Rose Arcos, her 35-year-old husband Joseph, and their 9-year-old daughter Celeste. The agreed upon amount was $210,000. Of that amount, $162,500 (about $1.2 million today) was for the death of Mrs. Arcos, which was reported by the New York Times to have been the largest award ever made for a housewife up until that point.
There was another couple in the back seat of the Arcos' car – Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Catapano. They were both injured, Mrs. Catapano most severely with a broken hip. Aetna insurance offered them a lesser amount than the Arcos's for their injuries and they opted not to take the offer. It apparently wasn't enough. On June 5th of 1965, the jury handed down their decision and concluded that Arlene Francis had not been negligent in the accident. As a result, the Catapanos were given nothing, zilch, nada.
Arlene Francis, once the star of stage, movies, radio, and later on TV, is mostly forgotten today. She passed away on May 31, 2001 at the age of 93, attributed to complications of cancer and Alzheimer's disease.
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Katherine Mansfield, Chaucer Mansions flat, Queen's Club Gardens, West Kensington, London, England, 1913 Reference Number: 1/4-059876-F Katherine Mansfield seated at a table in the Chaucer Mansions flat, Queen's Club Gardens, West Kensington, London, England, in 1913. Photograph taken by Ida Baker.
During the last two years of her life, Katherine Mansfield, ailing with tuber-culosis, was attracted to her Russian 'healers' in Paris – a doctor, Ivan Man-oukhin (1882-1958), and a spiritual teacher, George Gurdjieff (1866-1949) mostly through her love for Russians in general and for Anton Chekhov,in particular. In Mansfield criticism, the two men are often lumped together to the point where Manoukhin is referred to as another 'mystic,' or even a quack. With the help of the unpublished Manoukhin papers that reside in the Bakhmeteff Archive at Columbia University, and numerous memoirs written by Gurdjieff's disciples, this article throws more light on the two very different personalities who were so essential to her.
Ivan Manoukhin became an accomplished medical expert in Russia long before the new Soviet government allowed him to go abroad in 1921. As a young man he had studied in the elite Petersburg Academy of Military Medicine and was awarded a prestigious dissertation prize, but his full rec-ognition came after his treatment of Maxim Gorky (1868-1936), a prom-inent Russian writer who had suffered from tuberculosis since his early years. In 1913, while in Italy, Gorky accepted highly experimental treat-ment from Manoukhin, then doing further research at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. This treatment was based on Manoukhin's study of the effects of applying a low dose of X-ray radiation to the spleen of monkeys and guinea pigs infected with human TB. Manoukhin claimed that all animals were cured as a result. The same year Manoukhin's own wife, Tatiana, also developed tuberculosis, and he treated her simultaneously with Gorky.
In his autobiography Manoukhin recorded that by the time he saw Gorky, other doctors considered his illness virtually hopeless. Manoukhin's treat-ment appeared to be very successful. Gorky lived for twenty-three more years, and while the official reason for his demise in 1936 was 'heart dis-ease,' given that it was the peak of the Stalin purges, the death most likely was not entirely of natural causes. (Manoukhin's wife, meanwhile, lived to be seventy-seven.) Consequently, Manoukhin not only gained fame but also developed a close friendship with the writer, who would make sure the Manoukhins were allowed to go abroad in 1921. Before they escaped hungry and war-torn Russia, Manoukhin got a chance to meet H. G. Wells, who was visiting Moscow and Petrograd in 1920. Wells described his dis-covery of Manoukhin in Russia in the Shadows, published a year later. His son Gip, who had accompanied Wells to Russia, made sure Manoukhin's abstracts were published in Cambridge in 1921.
In September of 1921, while in Switzerland, Mansfield was visited by Mrs. Wells and her two sons, and it was most likely from Gip (not her Russian friend, Samuel Koteliansky, as is assumed by most Mansfield scholars), that she first heard about Manoukhin. By then Manoukhin was already in Paris and had published a piece in The Lancet detailing his treatment. In it he claimed that he had cured eight thousand cases of tuberculosis in Russia. Upon arriving to Paris Manoukhin discovered that his 'valuable samples' had been improperly handled and were therefore worthless. Without them, so was his presentation to a group of prominent French lung specialists who showed much scepticism about his stated results. One doctor whom Manoukhin did impress was Louis Donat, a physician at a community tu-berculosis clinic in the 13th Arrondissement of Paris. Donat suggested to Manoukhin that they should open a private practice together, and Manouk-hin, not seeing any better options, agreed.
At the time Mansfield was seeking Manoukhin's help, he and Donat had just opened a clinic in Paris at the Trocadero. Despite his earlier stint at the Pasteur Institute, Manoukhin was largely French-less and clueless, as well as very deflated, having lived through the horrors of the 1917 Revolu-tion and civil war. Donat, whom Manoukhin gradually came to detest, was therefore in charge of all commercial aspects of their enterprise. While on February 1, 1922, Mansfield stated to her husband, John Middleton Murry, that during her first visit she had seen nothing but respect and coopera-tion between the two men, she soon got a clear sense of the actual discord between them: 'I wish I knew what was happening to Manoukhin. The atmosphere of that clinique is terrible. Yesterday he simply would not and did not speak to his partner. He was so agitated that he could not speak French at all.' She still liked Manoukhin, though, and was appalled that he was 'simply not known'outside of Russia. She was delighted that, through him, she got to meet Ivan Bunin and Alexander Kuprin, famous Russian writ-ers, now in emigration. 'To think one can speak with somebody who really knew Tchekhov', she wrote to Koteliansky. And she was also thrilled when they all spoke Russian: 'When I hear it spoken it makes me think of course always of Tchekhov'. It helped her faith in Manoukhin that Chekhov was not just a Russian writer or a fellow TB sufferer but also a Russian doctor.
Manoukhin wrote in his autobiography that he was 'deeply saddened' to read Mansfield's diaries, where she talked about her experience at his clinic:
[S]he complained there about the high prices we charged … In that first year, when she came to us, I had no idea whether Donat was charging too much or not (he kept assuring me that it was similar to the average Paris price for services of this kind) and, to be honest, at first I stayed away from all these financial matters, especially because, legally, according to the contract I signed, I could have not changed anything anyway. I only managed to convince him to allow the impoverished Russian émigrés to get my treatment for free.
That was Manoukhin's only reference to Mansfield there; he did not say anything about her condition or whether it was wrong for her to continue the treatment in London in the summer of 1922, as opposed to staying in Paris. He was, however, very much against her going to Gurdjieff's 'Insti-tute for the Harmonious Development of Man' in the autumn of 1922, and wrote about his opposition to Gurdjieff. James Moore accuses Manoukhin in Gurdjieff and Mansfield of acting in a purely mercantile fashion: 'Her commissions went straight into Manoukhin's pocket.' But Manoukhin ob-viously had good reasons to think that it would irrevocably harm her and give her false hope. Mansfield also knew that Chekhov would have not approved of her decision either, and her letters and diary entries from the autumn of 1922 reveal her constant inner argument with him. She ulti-mately convinced herself that Chekhov had simply given up towards the end, choosing to die instead of continuing to fight, while she still wanted to live. 'Risk! Risk anything!' she wrote in her diary on October 14. 'True, Tchekhov didn't. Yes, but Tchekhov died.'
One of Gurdjieff's disciples aptly described his teachings as 'a doctrine that combined a system of human psychology and physiology handed down from the most ancient traditions, with certain little-known facts of contemporary science.'Gurdjieff, who came from the ethnically mixed Caucasus region of the vast Russian empire, skillfully wove the many Eastern and Western mys-tical strands popular at the turn of the century into one narrative that aimed at achieving a higher state of consciousness. To this he added practical yet 'sacred' exercises and dances, as well as constant labor. He called his brand of spirituality 'The Fourth Way,' or 'The Work.' And yet for Mansfield, Gur-djieff's – or, rather, his entire commune's – mystique had again much more to do with Chekhov than with any particular system of esoteric beliefs. Since Manoukhin had failed to produce the hoped-for miracle, Mansfield's conver-sations with her friend and recent convert to 'The Fourth Way,' A. R. Orage, probably impressed her precisely because there were so many other Russians in Fontainebleau – and not just any Russians.
To begin with, she was told that Chekhov's widow, Olga Knipper, herself would soon join Gurdjieff. While still under Manoukhin's care, Mans-field had written in her journal: 'I want to adopt a Russian baby, call him Anton, and bring him up as mine, with K[oteliansky] for a godfa-ther, and Mme. Tchekhov for a godmother. Such is my dream.' But even without Madame Chekhov, there were still others who, to a fertile mind, would appear to be some kind of deliberate Chekhovian incarnations. There was, for example, 'Mr Ivanov' who milked cows and lit lanterns – a namesake, of course, of one of Chekhov's famous dramatic protagonists. Another young Russian helper was named, like the famous character in Chekhov's Seagull, 'Nina.' And then there was a man by the name of Tchekhovitch, which sounds like a variation of Chekhov's name (it can be loosely translated as 'son of Chekhov').
Tchekhovitch, whose family was Polish, grew up in Russia and met Gur-djieff after the Revolution, in Constantinople. In his 1950s memoirs, Gur-djieff: A Master in Life, Tchekhovitch wrote that Mansfield would come to see him and his companions perform ritual dances. They did not know who she was, yet she had such a capacity to 'fill … the air with her subtle and sympathetic presence' that they were happy to have her around. The two became friendly. She was very pleased that he called her by the Rus-sian nickname Katya; and even though he obviously had a first name too, Tcheslaw, she preferred to always call him by his Chekhov-like last name.
There was also another Olga among Gurdjieff's associates: Olga Ivanovna Lazovich Hinzenberg, or 'Olgivanna', as she was more often referred to. She was a Serbian from Montenegro but lived in Georgia and Russia prior to coming to France. In 1931, Olgivanna, by then Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright, likewise recorded her memories of Mansfield which were published in The Bookman. Her piece is somewhat skewed because her main purpose there was defending Gurdjieff's reputation (which by 1931 was indeed seriously tarnished) yet it also gives us invaluable personal glimpses of Mansfield, especially when it came to Mansfield's loneliness, to her wanting Olgivan-na to be always near her, and, above all, to Mansfield's everlasting fascina-tion with all things Russian. While assigned to a dining room with other non-Russians, Mansfield, according to Olgivanna, 'had expressed her deep wish to eat in the Russian dining-room … but, to her disappointment, she never did.'
Fritz Peters, who joined the Gurdjieff Institute as a teenager, suggested in Boyhood with Gurdjieff that among the Russians at the Institute some were followers yet many others just hanger-ons, grateful to have a bed and a roof over their heads. But whether they were true disciples probably did not matter to Mansfield one bit; it was the Russian vibe she forever associ-ated with Chekhov that she wanted to experience by joining them in their daily routines. And while she liked all the Russian incarnations of Chekhov around her, it was of course still the man himself she really wished to com-mune with, knowing all too well that Chekhov would have just rolled his eyes at the whole notion of her being with Gurdjieff …
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United States and United Nations Impose Sanctions Against Libya
On Friday, February 25, 2011 President Obama issued an Executive Order blocking property and prohibiting certain transactions related to Libya. The presidential action came following a deterioration of the security situation in Libya, where "Colonel Muammar Qadhafi, his government, and close associates have taken extreme measures against the people of Libya, including by using weapons of war, mercenaries, and wanton violence against unarmed civilians." The Executive Order also noted "a serious risk that Libyan state assets will be misappropriated by Qadhafi, members of his government, members of his family, or his close associates if those assets are not protected."
The Executive Order blocks all property and interests in property that are in the United States or in the possession or control of a U.S. person, including U.S. financial institutions of Qadhafi, his daughter Ayesha and his sons Khamis, Mutassim and Saif Al-Islam. It also authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to designate additional persons, including senior officials of the Government of Libya and their families as well as those responsible for human rights abuses related to political repression. In addition, all property and interests in property of the Government of Libya and its agencies, instrumentalities and controlled entities, including the Central Bank of Libya, are blocked.
The same day the Office of Foreign Assets Control within the United States Department of the Treasury published a notice designating Qadhafi and his children as "specially designated nationals," and also issued a general license that authorized transactions with financial institutions owned or controlled by the Government of Libya, provided those financial institutions are organized under the laws of a country other than Libya. See General License No. 1, Authorizing Transactions Related to Third-Country Libyan-Owned or Controlled Banks.
Also, on Saturday February 26, 2011 the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution that imposed financial sanctions against Qadhafi and members of his family involved in or complicit in ordering, controlling, or otherwise directing, the commission of serious human rights abuses against persons in the Libya, including by being involved in or complicit in planning, commanding, ordering or conducting attacks, in violation of international law, including aerial bombardments, on civilian populations and facilities; or acting for or on behalf of or at the direction of such persons. UNSCR 1970 (2011). This resolution came into force at 5:15pm on Sunday, February 27, 2011.
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Q: Logout is not working in CI 3 I am trying to log out for the logged in users .
But its not working ,after log out ,i am getting session data also .
Below is my code .please have a look.
public function logout() {

        if ($this->session->userdata('login') == "true") {
            $current_user_data = $this->session->userdata('current_user_data');

            $type = $current_user_data['type'];
            $user_id = $current_user_data['user_id'];
            $token = $current_user_data['token'];
            $logout = $this->school->logout($type, $user_id, $token);
            if (!empty($logout)) {
                //echo $logout->responseCode;
                if ($logout->responseCode == 200 || $logout->responseCode == 419) {
                    $this->session->sess_destroy();
                    $this->clear_cache();//clear the cache after logout //
                    redirect('login');
                } else {
                    //$error['code']=json_encode(array('responseCode' => '500', 'response' => array('message' => 'error', 'statusReason' => 'internal_server_error')));
                    $url = "error/error_type/500";
                    redirect($url);
                }
            } else {
                //echo "invalid token";
                $url = "error/error_type/401";
                redirect($url);
            }
        } else {
            redirect('login');
        }
    }

Its going to conditions also , but session is not destroying .
Any thing wrong here?
Thank you

A: sess_destroy() will destroy all the sessions, even flash ones. Why don't use the simple function. I have tried this and it worked in my case. I made a session named userdata which will take user credential while he login. This is my logout function.
/**
 * to logout the current session
 */

public function logout() {
    $this->session->unset_userdata('user_login');
    $this->load->view('index.php');
}

If you want to destroy the session data this should work fine too,
refer this further https://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/sessions.html

A: Try this Method for logout
<?php
    class Logout extends CI_Controller
    {
        public function __construct()
        {
            parent::__construct();
            $this->load->helper(array('url','html'));
            $this->load->library('session');
            $this->load->database();
            $this->load->model('users_model');

        }

        function index()
        {
        $user_data = $this->user_model->get_user_by_id($this->session->userdata('id'));
            foreach ($user_data as $key => $value) {
                if ($key != 'session_id' && $key != 'ip_address' && $key != 'user_agent' && $key != 'last_activity') {
                    $this->session->unset_userdata($key);
                }
            }
        $this->session->sess_destroy();

        redirect('Welcome', 'refresh');
        }
    }


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Bronx Battles Opioid Epidemic
A demonstrator advocates for an end to the Drug War at a city march.
Filed under Fordham in the Bronx, Metro, News
By Aislinn Keely
Overdose deaths increased in the Bronx as more fatal cases were discovered alone and in public areas. In response to the growing epidemic of opioid use and fatal overdose rate, City Hall is funneling money into outreach.
Elizabeth Evans, executive director of New York Harm Reduction Educators (NYHRE), works to promote local outreach in the Bronx and Harlem by increasing access to treatment, emergency training, HIV and Hepatitis B testing, as well as further the conversation surrounding addiction.
Of the five New York boroughs, the Bronx had the highest overdose-related mortality rate in 2016 with 308 of the 1,374 overdose-related deaths in New York City, according to The New York Times. This shows an increase since 2010.
"In New York City one person dies [of overdose] every seven hours. The combination of factors as to why that's happening is complicated," said Evans.
However, Evans said that the stigmatization of addiction can push people into "dangerous" situations where they hide while using and use alone. This can lead to an overdose in places where a user will not be found and cannot be helped.
Fordham-Bronx Park was one of the top five neighborhoods for opioid-related overdose deaths in 2015 and 2016, according to The New York Times. There is a greater risk of overdose-related deaths in areas that have less access to housing and shelters, according to Evans. The lack of opportunity to reach out and talk about addiction can contribute to the high mortality rate.
The epidemic is growing in part to difficulties reaching people who do not want to receive abstinence-based treatment, which promotes complete sobriety as opposed to other treatment methods like harm reduction. Abstinence-based treatment has been very effective for some people, but not all, according to Evans.
"At that same moment in time, there are many people who are not ready to be in treatment, and for that population of people, who are huge, at any given time, I don't believe we're reaching them with services they will receive in that moment of crisis," she said.
Evans has worked with many addicts who have faced incarceration and multiple traumas in their lives. "Drug use tends to be amplified at times when people are facing multiple stressors," she said.
The Times reported a trend in overdose deaths among white residents in the Bronx. Though making up only nine percent of the Bronx population, white residents were the leading demographic for overdoses.
"Drugs don't discriminate between race, but there is obviously many factors that lead to why people in various populations and various demographics are more at risk of overdose and social exclusion, and obvious barriers get in the way of people accessing services," Evans said. These factors can include poverty and racism, according to Evans.
Conversation, particularly "talking honestly about drug use in a way that is not judgmental, that allows and enables a conversation to exist," is paramount to produce change, according to Evans.
"The added stigma and shame of being a drug user can really amplify and intensify those feelings, so the simple act of somebody caring to help them when they've overdosed or when their life is at risk sends a very powerful message to that person that their life does matter," she said.
Access to training in high-risk areas is important as well, according to Evans. "People who are living in a very close proximity to people who are using aren't aware of how they can help save their lives," she said.
Education on how to administer naloxone, a life-saving drug used in the case of opioid overdoses with the brand name Narcan, makes an impact, according to Evans. Carrying naloxone can save lives. There are city-wide efforts to increase training on how to administer naloxone. NYHRE hosts workshops on what to do in the event of an overdose and how to administer naloxone.
Mayor de Blasio allocated $38 million a year in an effort to reduce overdose-related deaths by 35 percent in the next five years.
"I think the city should be congratulated for the amount of money and effort it's placing into this campaign. It's incredibly important to push naloxone as much and as far and as widely as possible because it is effective at saving lives," Evans said. "Of course, there is always more we can do."
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The Real Scott Westerman: 1925-2018
Scott Westerman April 18, 2018
W. Scott Westerman, Jr., the man I've always called "The Real" Scott Westerman, passed away peacefully early in the morning of April 18, 2018, on what would have been my mother's 93rd birthday.
She would want me to remind you that she left us on Dad's birthday nearly 13 years ago.
He was lovingly cared for by the team at the Glacier Hills Retirement Community, a true "Cruise Ship on Land" and surrounded daily by the many friends he had made in nearly 7 decades of life in Ann Arbor.
Whenever someone would praise dad for his many contributions to the community, he loved to deflect his accomplishments in the direction of others. When pressed, he would only admit that he was the right person, in the right place at the right time.
That began at birth, July 10, 1925, when he came into the world the youngest of three children in a Methodist minister's parsonage. Having two older sisters who were valedictorians set a high bar in a household where selfless service was an expectation.
He did his best to live up to that expectation, becoming involved in student government and playing a number of varsity sports at the Gallia Academy High School in Gallipolis, Ohio. Being part of the Greatest Generation, he proactively answered Uncle Sam's call, participating in a program that allowed him to graduate early and put a year of college under his belt before entering the service.
He was the right person, in the right place at the right time, when he met Marcine Percy, a Phi Beta Kappa and one of the most popular girls at Ohio Wesleyan University. He somehow managed to gain her attention to the point where they agreed to write one another when dad joined the 86th Infantry Division. Although dad pressed her, my future mother resisted his desire for commitment. It's family lore that her response was "It wouldn't be fair," meaning, "you might not make it back and I want to keep my options open."
The famed Black Hawks raced through Europe as the Second World War was coming to a close. Such was their distinguished service that they were tapped to take part in the planned invasion of Japan. It was on a transport in that direction when dad learned that the enemy had surrendered. He mustered out as company first sergeant and began to seriously consider what he wanted to be when he grew up.
He and my mother exchanged scores of letters during the war. Dad wore down her resistance to the point that she agreed to become engaged as he passed through town on his way to the Pacific Theater. Mom admitted that she didn't expect him to come back. But in what would become dad's game plan for attacking every challenge, come back he did, closing the sale at their Lima, Ohio wedding in the summer of 1948.
His educational vita includes Ohio Wesleyan, Northwestern and the University of Michigan, where he wrote a dissertation on "Teacher Pupil Planning" in pursuit of a PhD in Education. He became an assistant professor and also landed a plumb gig teaching at the university's prestigious private high school. It was a job that usually went to much more seasoned practitioners, but being in the right place at the right time, dad was able to demonstrate his skills and leverage his relationships to become the youngest member of the faculty.
Along the way he and mom had three children. My older sister, Sandra, was born prematurely in 1952 and passed away. I came on the scene in 1955 and my sister Judy joined the family two years later.
You can imagine what amazing parents they were. Our house was continually filled with fascinating people talking about fascinating things. Ours was a rainbow of races, faiths and lifestyle preferences. Judy and I learned much about character, compassion and the rich value of diversity from our parents. We also learned important life skills, how to compile a list of license plates from every state when we traveled, what to look for in a good used car, and never making any financial decision without getting at least three estimates.
It came to pass that dad was hired by the Ann Arbor Public Schools for roles that he thoroughly enjoyed, becoming the Social Studies Coordinator and eventually Assistant Superintendent for Instruction. His skill and confidence grew and when Superintendent Jack Elzay left the district, dad agreed to serve as interim, telling the Ann Arbor News, in his best Lyndon Johnson voice, "I am not a candidate".
As word spread, members of the community came forward to ask him to reconsider. And being the right person, in the right place at the right time, he was well positioned to lead the district through some of the most seismic change in its history.
Dad proactively sought out women and people of color for senior leadership positions in a time when there was still much discomfort with the notion. He empowered African American students at Pioneer High to entreat the faculty to create a more inclusive educational atmosphere. He filled the Pioneer auditorium the night the district presented its first-ever sex education curriculum to a still sexually cautious community. He shepherded a growing district through a year of split shifts as Huron High School was built. And he created an environment where productive change could emerge out of an era where riots and protests were the norm.
After four eventful years, Dad decided to return to teaching, becoming a department head at Eastern Michigan University's College of Education. By now, Dad's experience was such that when the deanship became available, he was the right person, in the right place at the right time. During his tenure, Eastern became the largest producer of teachers in the nation, talent that fanned out across the country to evangelize dad's belief that, through education, everyone has the opportunity to prosper.
He would want me to stop here to note my mother's accomplishments because he believed that her activism and engagement played a crucial role in Ann Arbor's storied history. A short list includes the founding of International Neighbors, a place where the spouses of foreign college students could learn to acclimate to American life. Mom was instrumental in the rise of Ann Arbor's Planned Parenthood organization and the League of Women Voters. She helped initiate our sister city relationship with Hickone, Japan, earned an advanced degree in art history and served with distinction on the Ann Arbor Board of Education.
Retirement for the two of them was much like their professional lives. Mom and dad became active volunteers in Ann Arbor. Dad enjoyed the opportunity to participate more fully in Ann Arbor Rotary, toured internationally with Eastern's Measure for Measure Men's Choral Society, and leant his expertise to a number of fund raising initiatives including the capital campaign at Ann Arbor's First Presbyterian Church. He and mom accepted a visiting professorship at Emporia State University. And they traveled the globe with the many beloved friends they made in over five decades as Ann Arborites. They were always our biggest cheerleaders, approved of the soul mates that Judy and I selected and treasured every moment they could spend with our progeny.
After mom's passing in 2005, dad entered his second life with full vigor, serving on the U of M Stem Cell Research Council, and providing valuable council and mentorship to a procession of Ann Arbor school superintendents. In his late bachelorhood, he had no shortage of female companionship, telling me, "Women my age love me because I can still drive at night."
At every turn, dad found it hard to accept praise. He admitted only that he was blessed with an amazing team and just tried to stay out of their way. Everyone who ever crossed his path witnessed dad's authentic humility. He always told us that gratitude and humility were essential to success.
We are put on this earth to alleviate suffering, to illuminate knowledge and to inspire others to think beyond paradigms, and discover their human potential. This was dad's credo. He learned early that affecting change was rarely painless. But he was never afraid to fight for his beliefs, even when his vision was ahead of the community comfort zone.
The secret was this: It was never about him. He was always more interested in you, what was happening in your life, and where it hurt. It didn't matter who you were or what your social status was. He was willing to roll up his sleeves, engage to celebrate your successes and help you work through your challenges. He lived the maxim that "The highest form of wisdom is kindness."
Imagine what our world could be like if everyone modeled that behavior.
And that would be dad's charge to you today? He was grateful for his long, productive life and was mildly interested in learning what might come afterward. But he was always focused on what we could do right now, to contribute to the greater good.
So we celebrate this extraordinary life, let us resolve to go forth and make a difference. I can't think of a better legacy for a remarkable man who was blessed to be the right person, in the right place, at the right time.
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10 thoughts on "The Real Scott Westerman: 1925-2018"
Jody Bruce says:
He was a remarkable humble and wise man. He will be missed by many I am sure! In reading this I realized the how you became the person you are and inspired so many in your life so far. I am sure your father was very proud of the person you became as well!
Frank Maynard says:
Your dad was a remarkable man. His name has stuck with me since he was the Ann Arbor superintendent, having heard and read his name in the news frequently when I was in high school. He accomplished many things but his greatest achievement must be his children. You certainly acquired his values of servant leadership and have continued his good works in your career and involvement. Most heartfelt condolences to you, Colleen, and your family.
Russ White says:
Scott – A wonderful tribute for a wonderful man! Bravo! – Russ
Doug Boynton says:
What a wonderful tribute to a great gentleman. It's clear that your dad's sense of public service and integrity was passed to the next generation.
Our prayers are with you and your family for the strength and courage to carry on.
Marcia (Marcy) Cook-Fine says:
Scott Westerman exceeded the highest form. At all times and in all ways he demonstrated not only kindness and wisdom but humor and an infectious joie de vivre. He and Marcy were family to us, with shared ideology and history (and nickname). I will cherish decades of memories of Scott Westerman, a truly kind and inspirational soul.
Karen Kerry says:
What a loss! Scott was a true gentleman and a great joy to be around. He was always so positive! A leader in turbulent times, he was great Ann Arborite in every sense of the word. From Superintendent of Ann Arbor Public Schools, to active Rotarian, to great dinner companion, no one lived better than you Scott! We will miss you!
Martha Schumacher says:
Scott, Judy, and the entire Westerman and Silver clan: in my book, it is not an overstatement to share that your father was truly one of the greatest human beings who ever walked this earth. May each of you revel in all that he did to make this world a better place. Much love, Rusty, Marth, Mare, Nance, John, Martha, JJ, Luis, Casey, Hazen, Zoe, Grady, Yvie and Piper
Manish Mehta says:
I knew Scott from Rotary. He was a good man! May the Almighty Rest His Soul in Eternal Peace.
Maida Zissis Laird says:
The Zissis family sends its deepest condolences to you and yours. A deservedly beautiful tribute for such a well loved man. God bless you.
George D Goodman says:
Scott Westerman was my wife's teacher at Uhigh in the mid-50s. He taught a class entitled "Modern Social Problems". She still thinks that he was the best teacher that she had. He was a gentleman and humanitarian. The community will miss him.


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Posted By: biztimes June 4, 2020
Dave Tranel began his journey into the world of interior design 27 years ago — somewhat by accident.
"Originally I had an office down in what is the IBM building, CyCare Plaza," he said. "They were having problems getting commercial flooring work done, (and) I had owned a lot of apartments and was involved in flooring quite a bit."
Seeing a chance to meet the needs of the businesses in CyCare Plaza, Tranel began doing some work in commercial flooring. He soon found an eager residential market, as well.
"I kept being asked if we did residential, so I expanded into residential," he said.
In 1993, Tranel opened The Floor Emporium, a locally owned and operated family business on Dubuque's West End.
"We were kind of considered outside of the town at the time," Tranel said. "It's been a good location for us since, with everything moving this way."
He expanded his business by purchasing Oak Street Furniture, located in the same building, in 1996, and added Amish Heirloom Cabinetry inside The Floor Emporium in 2006.
In 2012, Tranel consolidated his three businesses to create Interiors … by Design, a 7,500-square-foot "one-stop-shop" for interior design services.
Today, the business offers flooring, cabinetry, furniture, bedding and more, as well as full design, remodeling and installation services by professional staff.
"Our staff are so customer-service orientated," Tranel said. "I think that people enjoy coming into the store and find our staff very helpful and easy to talk to and work with. It's been a big part of our success."
For longtime Interiors … by Design customer Laura Chandlee, that is what keeps her coming back. Chandlee, who has used the business for her family's flooring needs in their homes in Dubuque and East Dubuque, Ill., praised the communication and accessibility of the staff.
"Dave and his staff have just been so friendly and accommodating," she said. "They were fabulous during some of the issues that we had, quick to respond, accessible when needed and really reliable — just a great company to work with. Great communication nowadays especially is so key."
Tranel said that what sets his business apart is the ability to offer services for all stages of the interior design process, from initial designing to installation and finishing touches.
"If they remodel a bathroom, we can help them with every facet of that, from demo to new drawings and putting it together," he said. "We're able to really start at the idea stage and take them right through completion."
To offer this wide range of services, the business works closely with area plumbers, electricians, carpenters and other specialized tradespeople to schedule jobs. Design work is completed by the Interiors … by Design team, with help from structural architects.
Tranel has seen many changes in the industry. He said that design trends are marking a return to older patterns and styles, such as old-fashioned cabinets and trim, neutral paints, wall clocks, mirrors and even wallpaper.
In addition, Tranel said that the advent of Home and Garden Television (HGTV) and reality programs such as "House Hunters" and "Property Brothers" has made home improvement more visible to the general population.
"It's great for people to help generate ideas, and people in the Midwest are more open to ideas today than they used to be," he said. "It's certainly a lot more fun industry at this point because you can be creative, and that's where we specialize."
Chandlee appreciates the business' commitment to customer-generated ideas. When designing her bathroom, for example, she knew that the tile she had chosen was unconventional, but said Tranel and his staff were open to her ideas and willing to put in the time to find the exact pattern and fit she was seeking.
"I know kind of what I like, and Dave worked with that," Chandlee said. "I like really funky, fun, unique tile and … he'd search and search and order the things I wanted and contact the places that he needed. He was so flexible and open to anything. He'd say, 'I've never seen that done, but I like it.'"
Customer feedback is important to Tranel, and one of his business' best chances to hear from customers is the annual Tri-State Home and Builders Show each spring. At the 2020 show, Interiors … by Design unveiled its newest products, including a sofa with "kid-proof" stain-resistant fabric, an expanded bedding selection and a new "bed in a box."
"(The home show) allows people to see what we do and how we do it and meet people face-to-face to get creative juices flowing," Tranel said.
In addition to their work in from-scratch designing and installations, Interiors… by Design is heavily involved in remodeling. The business is servicing many customers seeking help with space management and redesigning to create bigger and more functional rooms, from kitchens to full basements.
"That's very exciting for us, making something out of nothing, increasing the value of the house and increasing the functionality," Tranel said. "If people allow us to be creative and we can expand and create a space that's brighter or more livable or more functional, then we've done our job."


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The United States Savings stamps program was created in 1954 to encourage savings and thrift among American schoolchildren.
Stamps were issued in denominations of 10¢, 25¢, 50¢, $1, and $5. The "Minuteman" Savings stamps were accompanied by albums and other materials that appealed to the spirit of patriotism.
U.S. Savings stamps were purchased by school administrators at local post offices and resold to students. An album containing $18.75 in Savings stamps could be exchanged for a U.S. Savings Bond with a face value of $25.00.
In 1958, the 25¢ Savings stamp was reissued with a new design that incorporated a 48-star U.S. flag. In 1961, the 25¢ stamp was updated to include a 50-star U.S. flag in recognition of Alaska and Hawaii's admission to the Union. The U.S. Savings stamp program was discontinued in 1970.


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The Tetrahedron of Fire
Health, Safety & Environment, White Papers & Briefings, EMEA
Jane Embury says national fire statistics rarely reveal the human cost of residential or commercial fires, and can even encourage complacency.
Lorry bomb. © Wrightstyle Ltd
The International Association of Fire and Rescue Services (CTIF) collects fire data from 31 countries and 35 cities worldwide, representing some 14% of the world's population.
In 2015, there were 3.5 million fires, 18,500 civilian deaths, and 45,000 civilian fire injuries. The median rate of civilian fire deaths per 100,000 was 1.1.
The highest fire death rates relative to population were in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
CTIF says that, extrapolating the results and applying them to non-reporting countries, could mean that some 136,000 people are killed by fire every year, making it among the most common causes of death for children and young adults.
The difficulty, of course, is collecting fire data from countries, cities or regions where such data is not recorded although, despite some stark variations, the incidence of serious fire and fire fatalities is falling.
Most fatal fires occur in the home. In developing countries that may be because of open cooking fires. In more developed countries, an electrical fault or a dropped cigarette.
However, the human cost can be much higher in a commercial building or, as we saw so tragically at Grenfell Tower, a high-rise residential building.
It's why developed, and most developing countries, have fire regulations that should inform designers and developers on the necessary steps needed to minimise fire risk – although, understandably, poorer countries find it harder to police those regulations.
It also requires an understanding of fire dynamics - the fundamental relationship between fuel, oxygen and heat – the so-called fire triangle on which all fires, intentional or otherwise, depend.
Get those three elements together and the fire triangle is joined by a fourth element - the chemical chain reaction that is actually the fire. In technical jargon, the triangle of combustion then becomes a tetrahedron.
It's a geometry that can either be friend or foe, as fuel and oxygen molecules gain energy and become active. This molecular energy is then transferred to other fuel and oxygen molecules to create and sustain the chain reaction. In an uncontrolled fire in a building, how it spreads of course depends on a whole range of factors - from the type of fuel (everything from ceiling tiles to furniture) to the building's construction and ventilation.
Taming fire generally involves the removal of heat, in most cases using water to soak up heat generated by the fire. Without energy in the form of heat, the fire cannot heat unburned fuel to ignition temperature and the fire will eventually go out. In addition, water acts to smother the flames and suffocate the fire.
But what is also needed is containment – to prevent the fire spreading from its original location. That was evident at Grenfell and, all too often, in other uncontrolled fires internationally.
Those protective barriers, often external curtain walling or internal glass screens and fire doors, should not only contain the fire in one discrete area, but also provide escape routes for the building's occupants and safe routes for incoming fire fighters.
That's where fire resistant glass and glazing systems are so important, because modern steel systems are so technically advanced that they have overcome the limitations inherent in the glass itself.
The biggest limitation is that glass softens over a range of 500˚c to 1500˚c. To put that in perspective, a candle flame burns at between 800˚c and 1200˚c. In a typical flashover fire inside a building, temperatures can reach between 1000˚c and 1400˚c.
These temperatures can disrupt the integrity of conventional panes of glass, which are liable to crack and break because of thermal shock and temperature differentials across the exposed face. This compromises the compartmentation of the building's interior allowing fire to spread from room to room.
That can, incidentally, be a problem that a sprinkler system actually causes. There have been several notable cases where cold water from a sprinkler system has come into contact with heated non-fire rated glass – causing the glass to break and allowing more oxygen to reach the seat of the fire.
As a fire escalates, the amount of heat produced can grow quickly, spreading like a predator from one fuel source to another – devouring materials that, in turn, will produce gases that are both highly toxic and flammable.
To make things worse, due to thermal expansion, these flammable gases are usually under pressure and able to pass through relatively small holes and gaps in ducts and walls, spreading the fire to other parts of the building. Heat will also be transmitted through internal walls by conduction.
As the fire worsens, and when unburned flammable gases reach auto ignition temperature, or are provided with an additional source of oxygen – for example, from a fractured window - an explosive effect called 'flashover' takes place.
Flashover is the most feared phenomenon of any fire fighter and signals several major changes in the fire and the response to it. First, it brings to an end all attempts at search and rescue in the area of the flashover. Simply, there won't be anybody alive to rescue.
Second, it signals that the fire has reached the end of its growth stage and that it is now fully developed as an inferno. That then signals a change in fire-fighting response because it marks the start of a worse danger – the risk of structural collapse.
The fact is that most fires start with only a minimum of danger – a dropped cigarette, a spark from a faulty wire – and, if dealt with quickly or adequately contained, pose no real threat. However, an unchecked fire can spread with devastating speed, particularly in a large open space such as a supermarket, open-plan office or factory. And when it does get out of control, the best means of survival is escape.
Around the world, more stringent building and fire regulations have led to architectural and design teams taking a multi-disciplinary approach to assessing hazards – from power failure to cyber attack, from civil disorder to fire and explosive detonation – and arriving at risk assessments that, hopefully, illuminate how that that building should be designed and built.
Designing in safety is nothing new, and assessing risk is the starting point, and in particular the need to build in compartmentation throughout the building, and examining the whole building's capacity to withstand a fire or other threats.
For the glazed components, that should mean analysing the level of containment the glass will provide and its compatibility with its framing system. Put the right glass into the wrong frame, or vice versa, and you could be turning sixty minutes of fire-resistance into five minutes. In an evacuation situation where seconds count, getting the design wrong at the outset could be a deadly mistake.
Evacuation is further complicated by the length of time it takes for people to leave a building. Many occupants won't take the fire alarm seriously, particularly if false alarms have sounded before, or will want to finish what they're doing first. This period – known as "start-up time" – is lengthened if occupants can't see any visible evidence of a fire. A fire alarm, in itself, isn't always alarming.
That's a worry for us at Wrightstyle, because we know of 90 minutes fire specifications that have been reduced to 60 minutes of fire resistance by the developer, or from integrity and insulation to integrity only, to stop fire but not radiant heat – even in larger commercial buildings, simply for cost reasons.
For larger buildings, either commercial or residential – particularly where there may be people with mobility issues or who can't easily self-evacuate – the minimum should surely always be 90 minutes.
Jane Embury
Jane Embury is the marketing director at international steel and aluminium glazing systems supplier, Wrightstyle (www.wrightstyle.co.uk).
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This Mala also holds Rose Quartz, to fill the cracks and our open heart with Love. It is a nurturing stone that connects us with a deeper sense of Love. It helps us learn to receive love, as much as to give love. We often focus on others and forget about ourselves...but Rose Quartz helps us strengthen ourselves, so that we can strengthen others. This gem promotes self-love, self-care, self-forgiveness, self-respect, and thus a deeper sense of contentment. This particular mala is finished with a (vegan) suede tassel.
The No Mind Mala is to be worn as a sweet reminder of taking a conscious step out of our rational mind and dive back into our deeper essence.


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THE MIXER | NIGHTLIFE
Susanne Bartsch
Is Back On Top (Virtually)
A notorious NYC party producer has taken to the internet to keep the rhythm going despite the coronavirus pandemic
It has been roughly two months now since the unthinkable happened: the city that never sleeps found itself in a veritable coma amid mass shutdowns aimed at preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus.
As people fled New York City and countless lives that once thrived on the crowded rituals of urban life were upended by the pandemic, America's most populous and vibrant metropolis was drastically and perhaps permanently altered. The MTA emptied out, the bright lights of Times Square danced for no one, and the throngs of nocturnal creatures that propelled the working hours of the city around the clock were robbed of their sanctuaries.
It was almost inconceivable in January that the virus that had thrown China into a state of utter panic would ever overwhelm New York City. For many, the alarming early coverage of COVID-19 was simply another online spectacle depicting a catastrophe an ocean away. Six months ago, New York was alive as ever on New Year's Eve with its usual flurry of raucous parties packed with people hopeful for a new year and a new decade. No one could have known what was coming.
One hundred years ago, America and the rest of the world were gripped by a different pandemic, the Spanish Flu, a virulent influenza virus estimated to have infected approximately 500 million people, a third of the world's population at the time. From April of 1918 until December of 1920, the virus killed as many as 100 million people, with more people dead in 24 weeks than HIV/AIDS killed in 24 years. The virus came in three waves and, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, created the most severe pandemic in history. After the postwar economic boom delivered Americans into a more prosperous era, the virus became a distant memory – until now.
Aquaria, April 23
Top health officials have predicted that COVID-19, much like the Spanish Flu, will come in waves, leaving Americans mired in perpetual uncertainty. For industries such as nightlife that thrive on crowds of people, the ultimatum is clear: adapt or die out. With the virus spreading rapidly worldwide, the internet is the last redoubt. Enter Susanne Bartsch. As downtown queer nightlife's perennial maven and one of New York City's most notorious party producers, Bartsch has taken to the internet to keep the rhythm going. This year's season of On Top, Bartsch's much-anticipated summer/fall party that usually takes place at the Standard Hotel in Chelsea, was relocated to Zoom, an online video conference platform where club kids and drag artists from all over the world have begun to use their aesthetic tastes to create an extradimensional cyber party under the auspices of Bartschland.
"People at The Standard don't even know when they're opening, and it's already about to be June,"
Bartsch said.
"It's devastating. It's very uncertain, very, very uncertain."
The Santiago & Jeffrey Scott
Kristina Kiss
Nicky Doll
Lola Von Rox
Love Bailey
But party producers aren't the only ones hurting in nightlife. By keeping the party online, DJs, hosts, and entertainers are given another opportunity to make money. Bartsch said her 2020 calendar has been completely wiped clean, an indicator of what so many others in the industry are probably facing as well.
"From Las Vegas to Vienna, I've lost every job there is,"
"Other than bringing together the community and supporting this nightlife community, it's also to help and pay people so they're able to buy food for the week."
This week marks the online party's seventh Thursday installment after its launch on April 16, and each week brings with it a different set of competitive look themes and a rotating cast of hosts, guest hosts, and entertainers. In addition to the usual staples such as glamour superstar Amanda Lepore, makeup mastermind Ryan Burke, downtown it girl Linux, performance art genius Thee Suburbia, burlesque bombshell Lola Von Rox, and a cast of other provocative personalities (Gottmik, CT Hedden, Jeffrey Scott, Kiss, Candy Warhol, Muffy, Chlamydia, Mateo Palacio, Adventure Dave, and Bob Bottle to name a few), Bartsch also books special guest talent that has already included RuPaul's Drag Race stars Aquaria, Crystal Methyd, Detox, Nicky Doll née Karlize, Brooke Lynn Hytes, and LA trans idols Gigi Gorgeous and Love Bailey, among others. DJs have included crowd favorites such as Vito Fun, Mazurbate, Tom Peters, Ty Sunderland, Aquaria, Amber Valentine, Tommie Sunshine, and London party impresario Jodie Harsh. This week, Bartsch is adding Trinity the Tuck to the roster, which promises to make for an interesting evening.
Fashion photographer Steven Klein celebrating his Birthday, April 30
Though we are separated by distance together, the remote platform has given artists the opportunity to customize their virtual surroundings in a way that augments their sartorial and cosmetic looks. Bartsch's parties have always served as a gallery space for artists to showcase work on their bodies, and now that space extends to their virtual presentation as well. Whether it be libertine displays of communal nudity or watching renowned fashion photographer Steven Klein blow out the candles on his birthday cake, each week has brought something fresh in what is quickly becoming a new global age of New York nightlife. There are still online after-parties. People still get high. DJ sets still guide the sonic tempo of the night. The events bring all the trappings of a regular party with none of the crowded congestion one might experience in the Le Bain bathroom (God bless it) during mid-May.
This may be the first online party of its kind – one that took an existing weekly party that became impossible in the face of the pandemic and preserved it in cyberspace, where for the first time anyone with an internet connection can attend from anywhere in the world. Queer nightlife is something special that needs to be preserved during these times of blinding uncertainty. In New York City, which became the pandemic's epicenter in a meteoric contamination, nightlife will probably be facing a depression for some time to come, especially if the virus moves in unpredictable waves and makes event planning and coordination impossible.
Still we press on. Even though the NYC Pride Parade was cancelled this year, along with the gauntlet of regular Pride events, mark your calendars for June 28. Bartsch is planning an international online Pride party on Zoom titled "On Top of the World: Pride," featuring a bevy of headliners such as Allie X and talent from cities all over the world, including New York, LA, London, Tokyo, Paris, and Berlin.
"I never even did a FaceTime call before all this,"
"I'm going all the way."
Mateo Palacio
Kyle Farmery
Crystal Methyd
Brooke Lynn Hytes
Jodie Harsh
Amanda Lepore
Jun Nakayama
Thee Suburbia & J'royce Jata
CT Hedden
Gigi Gorgeous & Gottmik
These times are historic, and so the ways that we choose to party and continue to celebrate life will take on a historic significance as well. The relationship between party and partygoer will be more symbiotic than ever. The parties offer respite to those taking quarantine seriously and give glamorous people everywhere a continuing opportunity to show up and show out. In exchange, we have to keep logging in and supporting these endeavors. As we now know well, nothing is promised. But we can still fight for the right to party.
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Emilie Moulard Anand joined Medela India Pvt. Ltd (A global producer of technologically advanced breast pumps and Medical Vacuum Technology) on March 2016. She is a French Show more.. National and has worked in India since 2006. Emilie is culturally diverse, enjoys developing new business and is full of energy.
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Greater Arcane Missiles is a 7 Mana Cost Epic Mage Spell card from the Mean Streets of Gadgetzan set!
Really surprised at the low score here. I love mage and can't wait to try and make it work. Probably going to see more of counterspell to set it up.
this card is probably the strongest of the set. After a board clean is 9 dmg to face. Have you thought how spell power affect this? it affectevery single missile, so +1 spell dmg turn 9 dmg to 12.
One Malygos-opponent's face turns into soup.
say spell damage +2 on an empty board. 15 to face.
Guys, having spell damage on the board and playing this would only make each tick deal 1 extra damage, not to say that that isn't good or anything. It works this way because they chose to write "Three missiles" and "3 damage". When a spell is empowered by spell damage, the number on the cart changes accordingly. If they wanted the cart to send out more missiles, they would have written "3 missiles" and "three damage".
This might be a foolish question. But if we have magic dmg buffs along with this spell. Isnt it going to be somewhat useful? – because I am assuming it can deal 4 or higher dmg to each unit.
Why would we play that.Also if you have SPD on a board,will each missile deal 4 damage+?If yes-might see some play.
Well than it's gonna be nice.But still.If this card costed 6 mana it would be much better and still not broken(probably).
If you look at the text of both it makes sense, but this will deal 4+ for each missile with spell damage but stay at a constant three missiles. SEE: Arcane Missiles – deal 3 damage randomly split among enemy characters. This is the same as Avenging Wrath (8 dmg randomly split) and says nothing about the actual missiles themselves. Instead the amount of damage being split is increased and so the number of missiles is actually just matching the total damage. +X Spell Damage only ever effects the damage amount, notice it doesn't add onto the healing from Holy Nova.
7 mana isn't a bit too much for the other version of this card?


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This article is about Nosferatu pencil drawing #277Z, which is for sale here, and written by artist and United States Navy Veteran, Stephen F. Condren, BFA, SAIC, of Condren Galleries, a Fine Arts Gallery, with JPEG & PDF scans and prints.
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This drawing is based upon the famous 1922 German film of the vampire Count Orlok by Friederich Wilhelm Murnau. The film was based on the famous novel of Dracula by Bram Stoker. However, due to copyright issues the film was banned in Germany and many of the original copies were destroyed.
My intention for this drawing is to bring out the character of Count Orlok and not to copy a photograph. If there is anything that is more boring or lame for an artist to do, it is to copy photos. The practice of copying photos is excellent when learning how to develop drawing skills, but it is only the excercise, not the art.
The pencil drawing of the count was first done very lightly and then as I progressed I used hatching and cross-hatching to bring in more detail. In the drawing below you can see the lighter sketch below the hatching.
The pencil drawing below I have increased the hatching and delineated the contour lines of the face and hand. Because of the intense cross-hatching near the edge of Count Orolk's face, there is an added mood of suspense to the image. The cross-hatching is nice for making prints because lines show up very clearly on reproductions.
Scans of Nosferatu pencil drawing #277Z are available in JPEG or PDF formats for making prints, note cards, or posters.
Condren Galleries is pleased to have been to participate in the execution of Nosferatu drawing #277Z.
As an artist I have made drawing like that of Nosferatu #277Z a staple of my work.
Nosferatu pencil drawing #277Z and prints by artist Stephen F. Condren at Condren Galleries.
Pen & ink drawing of President Bill Clinton.